Catching Up With...Me!

Wow, I haven't updated in a few. Funny, I've actually been missing writing my 2-page entries. (My parents recently gave Grandma some of my pages-ones written after February 19th, and it apparently ran about 60 pages.) I love writing, and I'd like to do it more often.
That being said, let's have an update! (Now's a good time, the iTunes is on shuffle, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" just began so I have a nice long stretch of music to write to.)
Friday...what did I even do? Umm...is it bad I can't remember? I know I was still feeling under the weather and so didn't go out or anything. I that that was the day I went to the computer lab and put together my moodboard for Susan's class (also images from Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist painter). Sharon came in for a bit and we talked about our classes and trying to find internships and whatnot. I probably applied for (more) internships that day too.
I also talked with my friend Adam on Skype for awhile. I was telling him about using retro-futurism about inspiration for Jen's accessories project, and he was a fan. We had a great discussion about that and "The Venture Brothers". We talked for awhile, about 2 and a half hours. It's always good to talk to him.
Saturday morning, I took the metro to BHV so that I could get embroidery thread for Susan's moodboard and wandered around on the kitchenwares floor for a bit. (I don't know why, I sometimes like to look at that stuff. Maybe I like to make my mental list of what I'll get when I have my own place and/or what I'll get if/after I learn to cook.) I then went back to the apartment to begin work on our 2 quilting samples (needed by Tuesday). I knew the methods that I was going to do, so it was just a matter of executing them. I knew that one method was going to take a REALLY long time, so I started that one. I started it at about 5 pm. I made it my goal to get it done by 9:30 pm. I got it done at 9:22 pm, go me. After I made dinner for myself (the faux-Maggi noodles of which I am...not especially fond of, but they're convenient and cheap), I decided to watch a movie online. I had been wanting to see "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" for awhile, but hadn't been able to find it. It was pretty interesting. (For those of you interested in checking it out, it's about Chuck Barris, who created and hosted "The Dating Game", "The Newlywed Game" and "The Gong Show". He has also claimed to work for the CIA, going on hit missions for them while in Europe chaperoning winners of "The Dating Game". The CIA vehemently denies this. Who knows for sure? Only one man, and he's had his say. But I think it's worth checking out because I love sharp personal contrasts like that. Also, it was written by Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote "Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich". It also has some pretty interesting shots, which makes sense seeing as it was directed by George Clooney.)
Sunday, I did my other quilting sample, which took a surprisingly short time (as in about an hour), so I think I know the method I'll be using for that evening bag. I also finished hemming each leg of my pants. Other than that, I started looking up stuff for the finishing board that Jen is having us do.
Monday was back to school, so it's more regular, jam-packed blog updates! I started tracing my pattern pieces onto paper from the dress. I worked the whole time and got about 7 of them traced.
Exciting news, though: You might remember that some weeks back, Muriel had asked me to draw up a list of places to apply for internships, along with addresses. She saw me during class and asked me to come back before the afternoon session so that we could begin drafting it. She had left some papers relating to drafting a lettre de motivation (NOT the same thing as a cover letter, I discovered), so I shuffled through them, seeing if there was anything I'd need to know. On the bottom half of one sheet, was scribbled a name and a phone number. The name was...Alber Elbaz, who happens to be head designer of...LANVIN!!! Sooo...who knows. I don't want to get my hopes up or anything, but how sweet would a stage at Lanvin be?!
I cam back from lunch, and I talked with Muriel about what I had done in fashion and art thus far, and she wrote it all down. Agnes was there too, helping us draft it. After class was over, Muriel told me to draft it (in complete sentences) and email it to her so that we can get ready to send them out Wednesday. So hopefully, something good will come of this...
In Art History, we discussed Super-Realism, also known as Photo-Realism. It was pretty interesting. After class, I got my stuff together for Tuesday and watched an episode of "Gossip Girl", as well as started drafting my letter.
Tuesday morning was class with Susan. One of the first few things she said was that she was cutting down on her teaching by an hour, soon to cut all of it out. She said that we'd be having 4 hours of class instead of 5, and we'd go 9 am-1 pm (instead of 9 am-12 pm and then 1 pm-2 pm). So that was a very pleasant surprise. She then talked to each of us about our quilting samples. She liked both of mine, and then suggested that I incorporate both of them into my evening bag. (That is the first time one of my samples have gone over THAT well, much less both of them.) I was then told to do more research into things from the 1930s (like architecture, furniture, glassware, etc) to get ideas about my bag (since my sketches were too simplistic). After she was done with everyone's quilting and bags, it was time for looking at our beachwear. She told me to take my ideas further, get my fabric samples and then get ideas for silhouettes.
A few funny things happened in class as well. Since Po-Lan had gotten his computer stolen about a month ago, he had gotten a new one. I was actually there in the studio when it arrived last week, and it's one of those new-fangled ultra-thin jobs. It looked pretty Jetson-esque. I guess today he mentioned that he had gotten it to Susan, and Susan really wanted to see it, so he brought it out. She was asking all about the built-in webcam and then she decided to call Tenzin, who was sick at home. So they called her, and we're pretty sure that Tenzin hung up on her (probably out of shock that her teacher was calling her at home). At this point, Susan was getting excited about every technological feature that the rest of us have enjoyed for a mere 7 years or so. I had to ask, "So Susan, I take it your computer doesn't have these features?" She replied, "No, mine is from the early '80s".
A little later near the end of class, she was telling us what she had planned to do for her sabbatical. In response to a question, she first said "I'm going to do nothing". I waited a beat and then said, "Will you embroider?", which got a big laugh out of everyone, which was fun. She then said that she was going to travel around India for awhile, and I asked about getting vaccinations since she's been there quite a few times before. (My question was if she needed to get vaccinations each time she went, or if one time covered it all. She responded by saying that as long as you didn't go into the rural area, you didn't need vaccinations.)
During our lovely 2-hour lunch break, I ate lunch and began typing my lettre de motivation. I got a little lost with Muriel's handwriting, so I did what I could until I went to French.
In French, we talked about falling in love and all that vocabulary that goes along with it.
After class, I came back and finished my letter and e-mailed it to Muriel to look at for tomorrow.
I really hope stuff will come together for me here.